A postdoctoral position is available immediately in the Preclinical Pharmacology Laboratory at McLean Hospital/Harvard Medical School to investigate the effects of abused drugs and potential pharmacotherapies for drug abuse. Several projects are available for study:

1) Identifying mechanisms that underlie differences between synthetic and phyto-cannabinoids.

2) Characterizing the capacity of novel compounds to selectively disrupt self-administration of abused drugs without other behavioral consequences.

3) Evaluating various approaches to increase the therapeutic benefits of opioid drugs without increasing their abuse liability.

Requirements:

Recent Ph.D. with a relevant background either in pharmacology, neuroscience, psychology, or physiology.

Successful track record of publishing and experience working with awake animals.

The candidate will be proposed for academic appointment as a Research Fellow in the Department of Psychiatry at HMS. The initial appointment will be for two years with the possibility of extension. Salary will be commensurate with qualifications, laboratory experience and institutional guidelines. Qualified women and minority candidates are strongly encouraged to apply.

To Apply:

Please send application materials including a CV, a brief summary of career goals and objectives and a list of three professional references to:

Review of applications will begin immediately and continue until the position is filled.

McLean Hospital, an affiliate of Harvard Medical School, is an Equal Opportunity Employer. It is the policy of McLean Hospital to affirmatively provide equal opportunity to all qualified applicants for employment and existing employees without regard to their race, religion, and color, national origin, sex, age, ancestry, protected veteran status, disability, sexual orientation, gender orientation or any other basis that would be in violation of any applicable law or regulation.